Translation for 'west coast' from English to Norwegian

west coast

vestkyst {m}

• Further, Tasman's suggestion that New Zealand was the western side of that Southern Continent was seized upon by many European cartographers who, for the next century, depicted New Zealand as the west coast of a Terra Australis rising gradually from the waters around Tierra del Fuego.
• On the west coast, as early as the 13th century, the Tongva, Luiseño and Chumash peoples collected the naturally occurring bitumen that seeped to the surface above underlying petroleum deposits.
• Two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt authorized the creation of military "exclusion zones" with Executive Order 9066, paving the way for the detention of all West Coast Japanese Americans in inland camps.
• on the west coast.
• It reproduces slowly by either bulb division or seeds and has gradually naturalized from plantings in urban and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the US since these environments mimic their native South African habitat.

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• A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2008.
• He served as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.
• S. West coast, coupled with the obstruction of the Suez Canal in March 2021, caused a shortage of tapioca pearls for bubble tea shops in the U.S.
• Aegean surface water circulates in a counterclockwise gyre, with hypersaline Mediterranean water moving northward along the west coast of Turkey, before being displaced by less dense Black Sea outflow.
• of coral reefs just offshore and two protected marine parks have been established off the west coast.

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• The Köppen climate classification subtype for this climate is "Cfb" (Marine West Coast Climate/Oceanic climate).
• The Southeast Alaskan coast is roughly as long as the west coast of Canada.
• The oldest oceanic crust in the Atlantic is up to 145 million years and situated off the west coast of Africa and east coast of North America, or on either side of the South Atlantic.
• After the war, Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe off the west coast of Africa to watch the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919.
• Though it had been specifically composed for the film, Breil's score was not used for the Los Angeles première of the film at Clune's Auditorium; rather, a score compiled by Carli Elinor was performed in its stead, and this score was used exclusively in West Coast showings.

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• Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, [...] southeast of Marseille.
• Achill Island ([...]; [...]) in County Mayo is the largest of the Irish isles, and is situated off the west coast of Ireland. It has a population of 2,594.